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Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
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Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#42OpenBSD and Co. (OpenSSH, etc.) * https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/ * https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/ * https://www.libressl.org/ * https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/
for sure not. OpenBSD makes no attempt to use proper performance which is critical for a kernel. there are so many naive ad-hoc data structures and algos, it's a shame to walkthrough.
Meh. Given the recent Spectre, Meltdown, etc. maybe we shouldn't focus on performance first, but security.
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/perf.html
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#43NetBSD. Why? I was able to do substantial changes to the kernel when I was a teenager (late 90s), mostly on my first try. There was no giant wall of abstraction I had to climb over or some huge swath of mutually interacting code I had to comprehend. There was also nothing that required fancy code navigation and the creation of something like the ctags database in order to find out what on earth was happening. No acti…
What's your relation with it nowadays? I'm very curious about NetBSD but never tried it yet. I sincerely wonder what's your opinion on it now, and why you speak about the situation only as "those days" now? :)
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#44SQLite. and for this reason alone! https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html As of version 3.23.0 (2018-04-02), the SQLite library consists of approximately 128.9 KSLOC of C code. (KSLOC means thousands of "Source Lines Of Code" or, in other words, lines of code excluding blank lines and comments.) By comparison, the project has 711 times as much test code and test scripts - 91772.0 KSLOC.
That doesn't mean their code is necessarily nice.
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#45It's funny to see nobody is even questioning the question.
What does it even hold as a value to be the project of the highest code quality in the world ? How can it exist as a consensus if we can't even agree on best practices ?
If it's for learning purposes, why even look for the ONE project with the HIGHEST quality ? Just go by any GOOD ENOUGH project.
I see this all the time: what's the best editor, the best color scheme, the best font, etc.
How about we just start saying: what's a good enough X for my purpose ?
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#46Twisted. Not only highly organized and sensibly delineated, but also a lot of fun to read - borderline comical at places.
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#47Python core libraries have great code. You can open pretty much any module and be able to understand the source without much context.
Though core has some bad API due to maintaining backwards compatibility a lot of the third party libraries like requests, Flask have great focus on API design and code quality.
The authors have good quality repos :
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#48NetBSD. Why? I was able to do substantial changes to the kernel when I was a teenager (late 90s), mostly on my first try. There was no giant wall of abstraction I had to climb over or some huge swath of mutually interacting code I had to comprehend. There was also nothing that required fancy code navigation and the creation of something like the ctags database in order to find out what on earth was happening. No acti…
What's your relation with it nowadays? I'm very curious about NetBSD but never tried it yet. I sincerely wonder what's your opinion on it now, and why you speak about the situation only as "those days" now? :)
I have no idea, haven't kept up with it. I'd recommend 1.x (I don't really use it these days because I need systems that future cheap devs can maintain and once you enter userland it takes commitment and time I simply don't have to stay with netbsd.
Debian permits me to usually not have to care and that's pretty invaluable
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#49I guess my vote for Matt's Script Archive is going nowhere..
Re: Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
#50I'm suprised nobody cited TeX from Knuth. It's an absolute standard in quality of implementation, documentation and computer science background. Perhaps unsurpassed.